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phytophagous. In most cases only the most comprehensive 

 account of the insect has been cited, no attempt having been 

 made to catalog all of the references to the individual species. 

 The host plant is given as found in the reference cited. For 

 corrected botanical names see appended list of host plants. 



Family AGAONIDAE. 



AGAON, BLASTOPHAGA, A\D RELATED GENERA. The fig-insects or caprifiers 

 of the figs (Ficus). The entire family is supposed to be phytophagous, 

 living in the seeds of figs. 



Family CALLIMOMIDAE. 



CALLIMOME TSUGAE Yano and Koyama, Rept. For. Bur. Tokyo, 1918, p. 



38-58. (Rev. Appl. Ent., ser. A, vol. 6, 1918, p. 403.) Said to infest seeds 



of Tsuga sieboldi in Japan. 



IDARNINAE. This whole subfamily is found associated with the true fig- 

 insects. Very little is known of their actual habits. Some are said to be 



inquilines while others are believed to be true parasites of Agaonidae. 

 MEGASTIGMUS ACULEATUS (Swederus): Wachtl, Wien. Ent. Zeit., 3, 1884, 



p. 38-39. Said to be phytophagous in seeds of rose in Europe. Also recorded 



from seeds of rose in North America by Crosby (Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 



6, 1913, p. 165); and in Japan, by Weiss (Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 10, 1917, 



p. 448). 

 MEGASTIGMUS ALBIFRONS Walker: Crosby, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 6, 



1913, p. 167-8. Reared from seeds of Pinus ponderosa from Placerville, 



California. 

 MEGASTIGMUS AMELANCHIERIS Cushman, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 19, 



C1917) 1918, p. 81. Reared from seeds of Amelanchior canadensis from 



Pickens, West Virginia, French Creek, West Virginia, and North East, 



Pennsylvania. 

 MEGASTIGMUS BALLESTRERII (Rondani): Stefani, Boll. Studi. Inform. R. 



Giardina Col. Palermo, 4, 1917, p. 101-131. Reared from fruits of Pistacio 



vera and P. terebinthus from Sicily. Probably occurs also throughout 



southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor. 

 MEGASTIGMUS BORRIESI Crosby, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 6, 1913, p. 169. 



Reared from seeds of Abies mariesi in Japan. 

 MEGASTIGMUS BREVICAUDIS Ratzeburg: Rodzianko, Comment. Torym., 1908, 



p. 608-11. Reared from seeds of Sorbus aucuparia at Poltava, Russia. 



Recorded also by Crosby (Bui. 265 Cornell Agr. Exp. Sta., 1909, p. 375) from 



Sorbus seeds in New York. 

 MEGASTIGMUS CRYPTOMERIAE Yano, Rept. For. Bur. Tokyo, 1918, p. 35-58. 



Reared from seeds of Cryptomeria japonica, and Chamaecyparis obtusa in 



J apan . 

 MEGASTIGMUS INAMURAE Yano, Rept. For. Bur. Tokyo, 1918, p. 35-58. Reared 



from seeds of Larix leptolepis in Japan. 

 MEGASTIGMUS LARICIS Marcovitch, Can. Ent., vol. 46, 1914, p. 435. Reared 



from seeds of Larix laricina du Roi at Ithaca, N. Y. Larva completely 



devours the kernel. 



